Blaze Sports Intel
Sports Intelligence Put Simply
Blaze Sports Intel
Sports Intelligence Put Simply
Every score, stat, and ranking on BSI is sourced and stamped. Here’s who we pull from, how often the numbers refresh, and what to expect when the calendar goes sideways.
Primary live scores, standings, rankings, team pages, and player profiles
Live while games play; standings and rankings refresh every half hour
Canonical provider for all sports data. Active RapidAPI Pro subscriptions: Highlightly Sports Pro, Highlightly MLB/College Baseball Pro, Highlightly NFL/College Football Pro.
Fallback source for college baseball scores, standings, rankings, and schedules
Scores live during games; standings and rankings once a day
Backup source for college baseball when Highlightly is unavailable. ESPN labels game times in UTC, but they are actually Eastern. We normalize everything to Central Time so what you see on the page matches the clock on your wall.
The Read engine. wOBA, wRC+, FIP, expected stats, HAV-F scouting grades.
Takes raw game data, adjusts for the park the at-bat happened in, and grades every player on a D1-calibrated scale. 920+ players on the board.
Refreshes multiple times a day, plus a full rebuild once every night
Weekly podcast episodes built from BSI editorial, rankings, and recaps
We feed our own writing and box scores in, and Google’s tool turns it into a podcast-style conversation.
A new episode drops weekly
Regular season (late March through October): coverage is full-throttle. Expect a five-to-ten-minute pause after the final out before everything finalizes.
Opening weekend (mid-February) can be patchy until conferences hit full stride. Rankings refresh once a week during the regular season.
Off-season runs February through August. No live scores in that window. Preseason games start in August with limited stats.
Off-season runs June through October. No live scores in that window. Summer League isn't included.
Every number on this site is tagged with where it came from and when it arrived. You’ll see a source label and a “last updated” stamp on every data surface, so you never have to guess whether you’re looking at live numbers or last night’s.
When a primary provider goes dark, the site falls back to the next source in line, then to the most recent good read on file. You always see something. The source label tells you exactly how fresh it is.
If a number looks wrong, it’s usually the calendar’s fault, not ours. Check the site status page for a live read on every feed.
Want the full methodology behind The Read? How park factors are computed, how HAV-F is scaled, what the error bars look like? Head to the Data Quality & Methodology page in the Models hub.